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A MONTHLY BULLETIN OF MATTERS OF INTEREST TO THE SYDNEY BUSH WALKERS, BOX 4476, G.P.O. SYDNEY, N.S.W. 2001. CLUB MEETINGS ARE HELD EVERY WEDNESDAY EVENING FROM 7.30 P.M. THE WIRELESS INSTITUTE BUILDING, 14 ATCHISON STREET, ST. LEONARDS. ENQUIRIES CONCERNING THE CLUB SHOULD BE REFERRED TO MRS MARCIA SHAPPERT - TELEPHONE 30.2028. | A MONTHLY BULLETIN OF MATTERS OF INTEREST TO THE SYDNEY BUSH WALKERS, BOX 4476, G.P.O. SYDNEY, N.S.W. 2001. CLUB MEETINGS ARE HELD EVERY WEDNESDAY EVENING FROM 7.30 P.M. THE WIRELESS INSTITUTE BUILDING, 14 ATCHISON STREET, ST. LEONARDS. ENQUIRIES CONCERNING THE CLUB SHOULD BE REFERRED TO MRS MARCIA SHAPPERT - TELEPHONE 30.2028. | ||
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EDITORS: SPIRO KETAS, 104/10 WYLDE ST. POTTS | EDITORS: SPIRO KETAS, 104/10 WYLDE ST. POTTS | ||
POINT. TEL. 357.1381 | POINT. TEL. 357.1381 | ||
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NEVILLE PAGE, 14 BRUCEDALE AVE. | NEVILLE PAGE, 14 BRUCEDALE AVE. | ||
EPPING. TEL 86.3739 | EPPING. TEL 86.3739 | ||
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BUSINESS MGR: BILL BURKE, 3 CORAL TREE DR. | BUSINESS MGR: BILL BURKE, 3 CORAL TREE DR. | ||
CARLINGFORD. TEL 871.1207 | CARLINGFORD. TEL 871.1207 | ||
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__AUGUST, 1975__ | __AUGUST, 1975__ | ||
- | Editorial Page 2 | + | Editorial |
- | International Women' | + | International Women' |
- | Arnhem Land. Dot Butler Page 7 | + | Arnhem Land - Dot Butler Page 7 |
- | Social Notes Spiro Ketas Page 13 | + | Social Notes - Spiro Ketas Page 13 |
- | The July General Meeting Jim Brown Page 14 | + | The July General Meeting |
- | Coming Walks Bob Hodgson Page 15 | + | Coming Walks - Bob Hodgson Page 15 |
- | Federation Notes Jim Vatiliotis Page 16 | + | Federation Notes - Jim Vatiliotis Page 16 |
- | Notice of Half Yearly General Meeting Helen Gray Page 18 | + | Notice of Half Yearly General Meeting |
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- | Page 2 THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER August 1975. | + | ====Editorial==== |
- | ***********************************************: | + | Has the New South Wales Federation of Bushwalkers outlived its usefulness? Is there no longer any need for the bushwalking movement to speak with one voice? If the answer to these questions is in the affirmative then we need have no concern. If not, we, as bushwalkers, |
- | Has the New South Wales Federation of Bushwalkers outlived its usefulness? Is there no longer any need for the bushwalking movement to speak with one voice? If the answer to these questions is in the affirmative then we need have no concern. If not, we, as bushwalkers, | + | |
- | be very concerned indeed. For Federatioci | + | One explanation for the apparent lack of interest in Federation affairs is that the body seems to have outlived the purposes for which it was created. At one stage in its history Federation was like a voice in the wilderness, putting |
- | One explanation for the apparent lack of interest in Federation affairs is that the body seems to have outlived the purposes for which it was created. At one stage in its history Federation was like a voice in the wilderness, putting | + | |
These are arguments for disbanding the Federation of Bushwalking Clubs. But surely on balance this could only be regarded as a retrograde step. It may be rarely, even once a year only, but there must exist still the need, from time to time, for bushwalkers and bushwalking clubs to speak with one voice. For this reason we need a Federation. | These are arguments for disbanding the Federation of Bushwalking Clubs. But surely on balance this could only be regarded as a retrograde step. It may be rarely, even once a year only, but there must exist still the need, from time to time, for bushwalkers and bushwalking clubs to speak with one voice. For this reason we need a Federation. | ||
- | The matter was briefly discussed at our own general meeting this month. It was suggested then that what may be needed is a general | + | |
- | An extraordinary meeting of Federation will be held shortly at which the Presidents of all affiliated Clubs, together with delegates, will discuss the body's future. The subject has been listed for discussion at our own Half Yearly General Meeting (see agenda elsewhere in this magazine), This is your chance to air your view. If Federation is to be disbanded let us at least be positive about it, and not allow it to happen by default. | + | The matter was briefly discussed at our own general meeting this month. It was suggested then that what may be needed is a general |
- | -- _Page: 3 THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER August, 1975. | + | |
- | INTERNATIONAL WOMEN' | + | An extraordinary meeting of Federation will be held shortly at which the Presidents of all affiliated Clubs, together with delegates, will discuss the body's future. The subject has been listed for discussion at our own Half Yearly General Meeting (see agenda elsewhere in this magazine). This is your chance to air your view. If Federation is to be disbanded let us at least be positive about it, and not allow it to happen by default. |
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+ | ====INTERNATIONAL WOMEN' | ||
by Marie B. Byles. | by Marie B. Byles. | ||
- | In 19759 International Women' | + | |
- | In 1921 the first reconnaissance of the mountain was made. That a woman should ever climb it was then unthinkable. Even in 1953, when its first ascent was made and presented to Elizabeth II as a coronation gift, it was still almost unthinkable; the male sex had the prerogative of physical strength | + | In 1975, International Women' |
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+ | In 1921 the first reconnaissance of the mountain was made. That a woman should ever climb it was then unthinkable. Even in 1953, when its first ascent was made and presented to Elizabeth II as a coronation gift, it was still almost unthinkable: the male sex had the prerogative of physical strength | ||
Have women' | Have women' | ||
- | My on body has cetainly not changed. Frail it was born and frail it has remained. I have often wondered how it managed to obey the mind and accomplish strenuous walks and mountain climbs. On the few occasions the body collapsed it was due to its being required to do more than it was physicallY | + | |
- | That was about 1935. A couple of years later we were getting ready to push our way up Stick-up Creek in New Zealand in quest of more virgin peaks, when Guiae Tom looked amusedly at my ' | + | My own body has cetainly not changed. Frail it was born and frail it has remained. I have often wondered how it managed to obey the mind and accomplish strenuous walks and mountain climbs. On the few occasions the body collapsed it was due to its being required to do more than it was physically |
- | know and Ill swop you." I imagine that his pack was about 100 lbs (45 kilos). | + | |
- | On any of these occasions if anyone had asserted that the male sex had the prerogative of physical strength I should have reluctantly agreed - reluctantly, | + | That was about 1935. A couple of years later we were getting ready to push our way up Stick-up Creek in New Zealand in quest of more virgin peaks, when Guide Tom looked amusedly at my ' |
- | was not pleasant and I used to pray that in my next incarnation - if such | + | |
- | should exist - I should be born with a strong | + | On any of these occasions if anyone had asserted that the male sex had the prerogative of physical strength I should have reluctantly agreed - reluctantly, |
- | as plumbing and engineering, | + | |
How are they doing it? HAVE women' | How are they doing it? HAVE women' | ||
- | But before you answer, let me tell you of the Nashi women shown in -,._:,,,,t he-tketoltte,: | + | |
- | Page 4 THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER August, 1975. | + | But before you answer, let me tell you of the Nashi women shown in the sketches drawn by my friend, Joan Renshaw, from actual photographs. |
- | It was in 1938 that I was in Yunnan in southwest China, intent on climbing a 20,0001 virgin mountain, Mount Sansato. In this country the inhabitants were mainly of the Nashi race, very diffel ept from the Chinese who ruled them. It was women of the Na-shi | + | |
- | time would have kept their wives in cosmetics, The wives also did the | + | It was in 1938 that I was in Yunnan in southwest China, intent on climbing a 20,000' |
- | cooking and housework such as it was. As far as I could see it was the chief job of the 'husbands to look after the Children. It was very sweet to see grandpa | + | time would have kept their wives in cosmetics. The wives also did the cooking and housework such as it was. As far as I could see it was the chief job of the husbands to look after the children. It was very sweet to see grandpa |
- | When we wanted servants to cook for us in camp and carry our gear up to the high camps we took it for granted that they would. be men. We had no idea that the women were far too busy with more important work. When we were ready to have our equilment | + | |
- | but merely that they could not carry heavy loads. The missionary who | + | When we wanted servants to cook for us in camp and carry our gear up to the high camps we took it for granted that they would be men. We had no idea that the women were far too busy with more important work. When we were ready to have our equipment |
- | was very helpful in arranging matters for us said that the women who | + | |
- | carried the stones for building his church carried loads of more than | + | On the return trek from the mountains towards North Vietnam (Indo China), it happened that we passed through a certain market town at the same time as the local peasants were leaving after having sold their own goods and bought others. Somehow I got separated from my own party and found myself more or less walking beside and along with certain |
- | 120 lbs (55.43 kilos). | + | |
- | On the return trek from the mountains towards North Vietnam | + | The heavily burdened women walked at about the some pace as I, they with the new kitchen cupboard on the back and I with all my gear on the back of a mule! Moreover the women required |
- | (Indo China), it happened that we passed through a certain market town | + | |
- | at the same time as the local peasants were leaving after having sold | + | |
- | their own goods and bought others. Somehow I got separated from my | + | |
- | own party and found myself more or less walking beside and along with certain | + | |
- | a piece of new furniture, and others with wide thick planks similarly strapped on their backs. Each had head bands to assist. I was not a slow walker in those days and usually tramped at four miles per hour (6.437 kilometres), (Pray heaven they do not make time decimal before I am carried to the crematorium!) | + | |
- | The heavily burdened women walked at about the some pace as 19 they with the new kitchen cupboard on the back and I will all my gear on the back of a mule! Moreover the women recuired | + | |
And what did the men carry? | And what did the men carry? | ||
- | They carried small baskets with an egg or two inside and perhaps | + | |
- | a vegetable or so. | + | They carried small baskets with an egg or two inside and perhaps a vegetable or so. |
- | I have read about and seen evidence of similar female strength in other countries but I have no exact data or photographs. I suggest | + | |
- | that when you next hear about characteristics of the sexes you insist | + | I have read about and seen evidence of similar female strength in other countries but I have no exact data or photographs. I suggest that when you next hear about characteristics of the sexes you insist upon legal and scientific evidence, though I doubt if such will ever be forthcoming. I have a friend who repeatedly insists that women are more prone to cushions than are men. That is just amusing. But a great many people insist that women are more emotional than men, yet I read in a Japanese biographical novel that the men were always dissolving into ' |
- | upon legal and scientific evidence, though I doubt if such will ever be forthcoming. I have a friend who repeatedly insists that women are | + | |
- | THE SYDNEY BLTSHUTALKER AUGUST 1975 PAGE 5 | + | I knew a married couple who taught in a coeducational boarding school in England. It was their observation that there were more differences between one boy and another, and one girl and another, than between boys as a whole and girls as a whole. But probably even they had no statistics. |
- | Page 6 TEE SYDNEY BUSETALIall August, 1975. | + | |
- | more prone to cushions than are men. That is just amusing. But a great many people insist that women are more emotional than men, yet I read in a Japanese biographical novel that the men were always dissolving into ' | + | I suggest |
- | I knew a married couple who taught in a coeducational boarding school in England. It was their observation that there were more differences between one boy and another, and one girl and another, than between boys | + | |
- | as a whole and girls as a whole. But probably even they had no statistics. | + | |
- | I suF.7est | + | |
Firstly, there are the physical and mental factors that come with birth, such as black or brown hair, strong or weak body, an ear for music or its absence. These can be modified to a limited extent by environment. | Firstly, there are the physical and mental factors that come with birth, such as black or brown hair, strong or weak body, an ear for music or its absence. These can be modified to a limited extent by environment. | ||
- | Secondly, there are the innornerable | + | |
- | includes imitation, for example when its mother throws a stone overarm | + | Secondly, there are the innumerable |
- | to frighten away a tiger, as I once saw, and whether a child is compassionate | + | |
- | or cruel towards weakness. | + | The environmental factors are unconscious and sometimes immovable. When I was a child I was absolutely certain that girls could never play the parts of men in school dramas because girls could not wear trousers. That is an example of an easily movable environmental factor. But I am sure that my friend will die still certain that women are more prone to cushions! Therefore, when you start to generalize, ask yourself whether you have examined thousands or merely hundreds of cases, and of course always drawn from widely separate sources. |
- | The environmental factors are unconscious and sometimes immovable. | + | |
- | When I was a child I was absolutely certain that girls could never play the parts of men in school dramas because girls could not wear trousers. That is an example of an easily movable environmental factor. But I am | + | Finally, lot me conclude by drawing from the recent |
- | sure that my friend will die still certain that women are more prone to | + | |
- | cushions | + | ====ARNHEM |
- | you have examined thousands or merely hundreds of cases, and of course always drawn from widely separate sources, | + | |
- | Finally, lot me conclude by drawing from the recent | + | |
- | Series on the ASCENT OF MAN in which Professor Brownowski pointed out that | + | |
- | the differences between men's and women' | + | |
- | trifling and that this, together with copulation face to face, pointed to the next step in the ascent to equality of men and women that is, of course, if there is a next step, but this Brownowdki | + | |
- | next expensive futility. | + | |
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- | Page 7 TI SYDNEY BUSHWALKER Augast 1975. | + | |
- | ARNIM LAND. | + | |
by Dot Butler. | by Dot Butler. | ||
- | ( | + | The Kameruka |
- | t\J E y Po I s Ki RT-Q- 1 | + | |
- | The Kameru1-% | + | The first question was, would we actually get away? The man who owned the plane had it up for sale and had almost found a buyer, but the sale fell through. Then he made a last minute demand for cash when we had been expecting the hiring to be a cheque transaction. Lengthy telephone calls and a hasty draining-off of all our cash reserves at last solved this unexpected |
- | The members of the party were David Marks, Dennis Ritson, Peter the Pilot, Libby Thornhill, John and myself. We spent the previous night at Dave's place at Burwood, ready for a dawn getaway. | + | |
- | The first question was, would we actually get away? The man who owned the plane had it up for sale and had almost found a buyer, but the sale fell through. Then he made a last minute demand for cash when we had been expecting the hiring to be a cheque transaction. Lengthy telephone calls and a hasty draining-off of all our cash reserves at last solved this unexpected | + | We went via Charleville, |
- | away! But no Over the ether came an insistent voice, " | + | |
- | Victor Romeo-Papa-Victor! Your cargo door is not locked!" | + | We were met at Katherine by the administratcr |
- | stopped the engine, crawled out and shut the door on our packs, got in again and. we were really off. I felt I was a passenger in the twin,-pram in which I used to push Rona. and my sister' | + | |
- | Page 8 THE SYDNEY BUSHWAIK7R August, 1975., | + | Our Administration friend picked us up and drove us back to the airstrip. We had to make the next hop to the isolated little GeoPeko uranium mine at Jabiru. Peter was not qualified to fly by night, so always we had to be landed before the sun dipped below the horizon. Peter, of course, had his times and distances all worked out, but we in the back seats spent a good bit of time in wondrous suspenseful speculation as we whirled over the vast uninhabited wastes of Arnhem Land. |
- | We went via Charleville, | + | |
- | We were met at Katherine by the aaministratcr | + | With a bit of time to spare before the sun disappeared, |
- | Our Administration friend picked us up and drove us back to the airstrip. We had to make the next hop to the isolated little GeoPeko uranium mine at Jabiru. Peter was not qualified to fly by night, so always we had to be landed before the sun dipped below the borizon. | + | climbed up a tower to spy out the land, but it was the sound of the generator at the mine, generating the evening's lighting, that gave us our clue which way to head. Down the red earth road, through the Capricornian bush, and we came upon telegraph poles with flying foxes hanging from the wires and then the mine outbuildings. Luck led us to a spacious recreation room and we were soon taken in tow by a garrulous engineer. We prepared our meal at his house, viewed the company' |
- | Peter, of course, had his times and distances all worked out, but we in | + | |
- | the back seats spent a good bit of time in wondrous suspenseful speculation as we whirled over the vast uninhabited wastes of Arnhem Land. | + | Next day one of the men drove us in his truck sixty miles to the crossing |
- | With a bit of time to spare before the sun disappeared, | + | |
- | the rugged mountainous escarpments and gorges through which we were | + | Following a river should not be difficult, but we soon found that unless you kept the water of the main river in view you could be lured away even more than 90 degrees off course following one of the anabranches, |
- | going to bushwalk. Fascinating country! Then 70 sought out the tiny | + | |
- | lonely airstrip and bounced to a halt with time to spare. Dennis | + | Arnhem Land is buffalo land. You meet them everywhere. The mothers are formidable foes if separated from their young, so whenever we came upon them unexpectedly we took good care that they were all galloping together, heads thrust forwards and horns back, and of course away from us. |
- | climbed up a tower to spy out the land, but it was the sound of the generator at the mine, generating the eveninc's lighting, that gave us. | + | |
- | our clue which way to head. Down the red earth road, through the | + | Our first night' |
- | Capricornian bush, and we came upon telegraph poles with flying foxes | + | |
- | hanging from the wires and then the mine outbuildings. Luck led us to | + | New country is always fascinating. Besides the buffalo there were wild pigs wallowing in the black mud, and wallabies, dingoes, emus, lizards, not to mention brown snakes and taipans |
- | a spacious recreation room and we Tore soon taken in tow by a garrulous engineer. We prepared our meal at his house, viewed the company' | + | |
- | Next day one of the men drove us in his truck sixty miles to the | + | There were the usual Bushwalker adventures of route finding in unknown country. Once, rather than swim a billabong, we had to climb up through a small range, then back again to the river. Pretty rugged going up among the rocks, but very interesting. |
- | Crossing | + | |
- | Page 9 | + | On our second day the river spread out into a lake about a mile wide with many water birds - ducks and jabirus and magpie geese with legs on them like footballers, and white egrets and herons, and darting over the banks were russet and blue kingfishers. Whirring flights of quail rose at our approach. At night curlews wailed in rising crescendo of panic. It gave Dave the shivers - like a woman being strangled, he said. We wondered whether he spoke from first-hand experience. |
- | THE SYDNEY BUSHVIALICER | + | |
- | August 9 1975. | + | When we left the river we took a compass course across low country, finding water when we needed it wherever the paperbarks and pandanus grew. The last day was a long one. We had hoped to get back to Jabiru by dark, but were still steering our course by starlight, and eventually tried to home in on the generator' |
- | ... | + | |
- | Lightweight bUshwalking. | + | Libby and I spent the night with the Ranger |
- | and camping gear. | + | |
- | Don't be lumbered with a winter bag in | + | Mt. Brockman |
- | summer | + | |
- | Our new ' | + | Gove Peninsula is the northernmost tip of Arnhem Land. We stayed the night with a pleasant young couple, the husband being one in charge of the bauxite |
- | Kiandra model: Pillow flap, hooded bag. Well filled. Compact, warm and lightvveight. Excellent for warmer summer nights and times when carrying weight can be reduced. Approx 33/41bs. | + | |
- | Hotham model: Superwarm hooded bag made for cold sleepers and high altitudes. 'Box quilted' | + | Our next destination was Urapunga and the Roper River Mission. One of the elders of the tribe, who spoke quite good English, met our plane and offered us the hospitality of his house for a cup of tea and use of the toilets. His pump was not working, so the boys repaired it for him. An interesting aspect of the toilets was that when you pulled the chain a large green frog came swimming out of the dwindling surge and clambered up again to his damp home in the cistern. |
- | ' | + | |
- | Everything for the bush- walker, from blankets and air mattresses, stretchers, boots, compasses, maps, books, stoves and lamps to cooking ware and freeze dried and dehydrated foods. | + | Lots of photographs were taken of the little aboriginal children on the beach. Libby bought a bark painting from the store. She asked an artist on the beach would he touch up a spot on it. He looked at it in some disgust, dismantled all the trimmings and set to and repainted the whole thing. |
- | ' | + | |
- | One, two or three man. From TA to 3%lbs. Choice of three cloths. | + | That night we went to a beaut barbecue party and were given some large fillets of barramundi to take away with us. |
- | Supplied with nylon cords and overlapped doors. No wails. | + | |
- | WALL TENTS | + | We had been making enquiries along the way as to the whereabouts of a mysterious "lost city" of Arnhem Land, recently shown on T.V., but no one was sure of its location. At Roper River, however, we struck pay dirt; a huge aboriginal offered to show it to us if we would afterwards drop him off at the Roper Bar airstrip, 30 miles away. |
- | Two, three or four man. From 314 to 4'/ | + | |
- | three cloths. | + | We offloaded all the packs to offset his weight and packed him in among the passengers (a tight squeeze for me in the gap between seats). Then, following his pointing arm, soared out 60 miles and came spot on target. It was an ancient range weathered down to a mass of spires and pinnacles with maze-like gaps between. We circled it many times and photographed it from all angles. An astounding sight! Then we returned and duly offloaded our guide at Roper Bar. |
- | Supplied with nylon cords and overlapped doors. | + | |
- | BUNYIP RUCKSACK | + | Next day we flew to Rockhampton, |
- | This ' | + | |
- | SENIOR RUCKSAdk | + | Rain greeted |
- | A single pocket, shaped rucksack. Suitable for overnight camping. Weight 11/21bs. | + | |
- | BUSHMAN RUCKSACK | + | Dennis is already making plans for another trip next June. Worth keeping in mind. The cost was $225 plus food. |
- | Has sewn-in curved bottom | + | |
- | . for extra comfort in carrying.' | + | ====SOCIAL NOTES==== |
- | Will hold 30113s. 2 pocket | + | by Spiro Ketas |
- | model 11/41bs. 3 pocket | + | |
- | model 116Ibs. | + | On 17th September Ian Saltmarsh will hold his Assam Tea Planting night assisted by an attractive sarong-clad Assam maiden who will serve tea to all present. Come along and learn how tea is made from planting to the pot. |
- | PIONEER RUCKSACK | + | |
- | Extra large bag with four external pockets and will carry about 40Ibs of camp gear. Weight 2Y4lbs. | + | The Federation Ball will be held at 8.30 p m. on Friday, 19th September at Petersham Town Hall. Two bands and supper. Prizes. Tickets $4.00 single. |
- | 69 LIVERPOOL ST. SYDNEY 26-2686 61-7215 | + | |
- | Page 10 THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER August, 1975. | + | Then on 24th September Wade Butler is to show a few slides on Antarctica and tell us all about his 15 month job at Mawson with the Australian Antarctic Scientific Expedition. Wade occupied his time in various ways including fishing, |
- | days, following | + | |
- | Following a river should not be difficult, but we soon found that unless you kept the water of the main river in view you could be lured | + | ====THE JULY GENERAL MEETING==== |
- | away even more than 90 degrees off course following one of the anabranches, | + | by Jim Brown |
- | or the long billabongs that arc off in mares' tails over the flat country. It took a little bit of sorting out for the first few hours, when some crossed a billabong while the others remained on its near bank. I had | + | |
- | cliMbed | + | Your reporter is pleased to record that, in the absence of a walks report, the notes for the July meeting will be quite brief. In fact he believes the July meeting should be kept to a minimum each year, which means that the transcription of the notes into a (more or less) readable summary will take only 20 minutes instead of the usual 1 - 1 1/2 hours, and one can complete one's taxation return in the remaining time (I hope). |
- | couldn' | + | |
- | call and there was the lost party, sitting by the riverbank. From then on we all kept ,together, although Libby kindly gave me a tin of sardines | + | Well, having offered this preliminary padding, it can be said that Vice-President Neville Page occupied the chair, there were about 30 folk present, and the business began at 8.25 p.m. with greetings to Robyn Preston and Dick Winthorpe, also to a last month' |
- | in case vi should have become separated again when the next meal came around. | + | |
- | Arnhem Land is buffalo land. You meet them everywhere. The | + | Correspondence contained as well as the usual crop of journals, a request for reinstatement to full membership by Graham Hogarth, and advice that the Electricity Commission was offering $280 for an easement along the transmission line (Dapto to Canberra) crossing our property. It was thought that a higher figure might be obtained in view of the necessary destruction to bushland and wild life that could follow. There was advice too from Ed Stanton on the adjoining Quakers property of some damage resulting from the June downpour |
- | mothers are formidable foes if separated from their young, so whenever we | + | |
- | came upon them unexpectedly we took good care that they were all | + | The Treasurer told us June had been a healthy month financially, |
- | galloping together, heads thrust forwards and horns back, and of course away from us. | + | |
- | Our first night' | + | It remained |
- | Being on the banks of the river made us ea.: | + | |
- | mind, everyone was remembering the story we had heard of the woman who was recently eaten alive. We lit a big fire between us and the water, and Denlas | + | ====COMING WALKS==== |
- | focussing | + | by Bob Hodgson |
- | the wood. Sometimes we climbed up and made camp away from the water, just to be sure. | + | |
- | New country is always fascinating. Besides the buffalo there were wild pigs wallowing in the black mud, and wallabies, dingoes, emus, lizards, not to mention brown snakes and taipans | + | September |
- | There were the usual Bushwalker adventures of route finding in unknown country. Once, rather than swim a billabong, we had to climb up through a small range, then back again to the river. Pretty rugged going 127) among the rocks, but very interesting. | + | |
- | On OUT second day the. river spread out into a lake about a mile wide with many water birds - ducks and jabirus and magpie geese with | + | September 5, 6, 7 - Just as spectacular but in more familiar territory is Bob Younger' |
- | Page 11 THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER August, 1975. | + | |
- | legs Ali them like fc) b ba,llers, and white egrets and herons, and darting over the banks were russet and blue kingfishers. Whirring flights of | + | Sunday 7 - See the upper reaches of Cowan Creek in the early spring with Mary Braithwaite. Easy tracks all the way with lots of wild flowers, a very pleasant trip. |
- | quail rose at our approach. At night curlews wailed in rising crescendo | + | |
- | of panic. It gave Dave the shivers - like a woman being strangled, he said. We wondered whether he spoke from first-hand experience. | + | 12, 13, 14 - Malcolm |
- | When we left the river we took a compass course across low country, finding water when we needed it wherever the paperbarks and pandanus | + | |
- | grew. The last day was a long one. We had hoped to get back to Jabiru | + | Sunday 14 - Real native rose territory. This is David Ingram' |
- | by dark, but were still steering our course by starlight, and eventually tried to home in on the generator' | + | |
- | Libby and I spent the night with the Rancor | + | Sunday 14 - Neville Page is leading his valiant followers down from Hartley Vale station into the spectacular upper reaches of the Grose Valley. A little scrubby and slow at first but well worth the effort. |
- | 60 ft. caravan. Next day he drove us out to Mt. Brockman, a place sacred to the aborir; | + | |
- | as to what may happen to this priceless treasure when the mine is finally established (its working has been held up for four years while an environment impact study is being conducted). The mountain is only two miles away from the boundary of the company7s | + | 19, 20, 21 - Plenty of good clean air and exercise on Peter Harris' |
- | Mt. Brochman | + | |
- | the Kakudu National Park. We climbed around its base, looking at the beautiful rock paintings on the red walls of the bat-filled caves and feeling the spirit of antiquity upon everything. We had to leave | + | Sunday 21 - Today it's the Blue Labyrinth with Jim Brown, into the green wonderland of Glenbrook Creek, A really great days outing. |
- | sooner than we would have liked as we had to reach Gove Peninsula before sundown. | + | |
- | Gove Peninsula is the northernmost tip of Arnhem Land. We stayed | + | Sunday 21 - Walk the unspoilt coast of Royal National Park with Roy Braithwaite. Good tracks with plenty of ocean and spectacular coastal scenery. |
- | the night with a pleasant young couple, the husband being one in charge of the bauxity | + | |
- | diggings to the process plant. (We could do with something like that to carry pebbles from the Kangaroo River to OUT hut building site!) | + | Sunday 28 - Plenty of wild flowers on Sheila Binns' Uloola Track National Park walk. Congenial company and easy tracks go together to make the day pass very pleasantly. |
- | Our next destination was Urapunga and the Roper River Mission. One of the elders of the tribe, who spoke quite good English, met our plane and offered us the hospitality of his house for a cup of tea and use of the toilets. His pump was not working, so the boys repaired it | + | |
- | for him. An interesting aspect of the toilets was that when you pulled | + | Sunday 28 - If you have seen the coastal displays of flowers come with John Holly who has been saving this walk up all year just to show you the display around Bargo. |
- | the chain a large green frog came swimming out of the dwindling surge | + | |
- | and clambered up again to his damp home in the cistern. | + | ====FEDERATION NOTES==== |
- | Lots of photographs were taken of the little aboriginal children | + | By Jim Vatiliotis |
- | on the beach. Libby bought a bark painting from the store. She asked | + | |
- | an artist on the beach would he touch up a spot on it. He looked at | + | __Annual General Meeting__ |
- | it in some disgust, dismantled all the trimmings and set to and repainted the whole thing. | + | 15th July, 1975 |
- | Page 12 THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER August, 1975. | + | |
- | *xxxx*************** M OUNTAIN | + | There were no nominations or volunteers for President, Senior |
- | ******************** | + | |
- | ********************** | + | |
- | EQUIPMENT | + | |
- | ***************** | + | |
- | IF YOU ARE | + | |
- | BUYING OR HIRING HIRING OR BUYING | + | |
- | BUYING OR HIRING HIRING OR BUYING | + | |
- | GEAR FOR | + | |
- | WALKING ...... CAMPING Opoo000 CLIMTING ...... CANOEING 0 0 0 WALKING ...... CAMPING ...... CLIMBING ...... CANOEING o4doe | + | |
- | THINK OF | + | |
- | MOUNTAIN_EQUIPMENT | + | |
- | 17 Alexander Street, Crow's Nest, 2065 (On the corner of Falcon Street) Telephone 439-3454. | + | |
- | for | + | |
- | FAIRYDOWN SLEEPING BAGS | + | |
- | HIGH LOAD PACKS (Weight 3 ib 10 oz) | + | |
- | AND ALL THE OTHER THINGS YOU COULD POSSIBLY NEED | + | |
- | * * * * * * * * * | + | |
- | Page 13 THE SYDNEY BUSHWALICR August 1975., | + | |
- | . . | + | |
- | That night we went to a b, | + | |
- | large fillets of barramundi to take away with us. | + | |
- | We had been making enquiries along the way as to the whereabouts of a mysterious "lot city" of Arnhem Land, recently shown on T.V., but no | + | |
- | one was sure of its location. At Roper River, however, we struck pay | + | |
- | dirt; a huge aboriginal offered to show it to us if we would afterwards drop him off at the Roper Bar airstrip, 30 miles away. | + | |
- | We offloaded all the packs to offset his weight and packed him in | + | |
- | among the passengers (a tight squeeze for me in the gap between seats), | + | |
- | Then, following his pointing arm, soared out 60 miles and came spot on | + | |
- | target. It was an ancient range weathered down to a mass of spires | + | |
- | and pinnacles with maze-like gaps between. We circled it many times | + | |
- | and photographed it from all angles. An astounding sight! Then we returned and duly offloaded our guide at Roper Bar. | + | |
- | Next day we flew to Rockhampton, | + | |
- | a most beautiful place, threatened by sand-mining. We swam in the ,blue, blue ocean and lazed on the beach, then reluctantly headed for home. | + | |
- | Rain L' | + | |
- | Dennis is already making plans for another trip next June. Worth keeping in mina. The cost was $225 plus food, | + | |
- | ************** | + | |
- | SOCIAL NOTES. by Spiro Ketas. | + | |
- | On 17th September Ian Saltmarsh will hold his Assam Tea Planting night assisted by an attractive sarong-clad Assam maiden who will serve tea to all,prosent. Come along and learn how tea is made from planting to the pot. | + | |
- | The Federation Ball will be held at 8.30 p m. on Friday, 19th | + | |
- | September at Petersham Town Hail. Two bands and supper. Prizes. Tickets $4.00 single. | + | |
- | Then on 24th September Wade Butler is to show a few slides on Antarctica and tell us all about his 15 month job at Mawson with the Australian Antarctic Scientific Expedition,. Wade occupied his time in | + | |
- | various ways including fishing, | + | |
- | the Antarctic! If you don't believe me come and see and hear for yourself before Wade heads off to Hobart next month. | + | |
- | Page 14 THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER August, 1975. | + | |
- | THE JULY GENERAL MEETING. | + | |
- | by Jim Brown. | + | |
- | Your reporter is pleased to record that, in the absence of a walks report, the notes for the July meeting will be quite brief. In fact he believes the July meeting should. be kept to a minimum each year, which means that the transcription of the notes into a (more or less) readable summary will take only 20 minutes instead of the usual 1 - 14.41 hours, and one can complete one's taxation return in the remaining time (I hope). | + | |
- | Well, having offered this preliminary padding, it can be said that Vice-President Neville Page occupied the chair, there were about 30 folk present, and the business began at 8.25 p m0 with greetings to Robyn Preston and Dick Winthorpe, also to a last month' | + | |
- | one disputed the contents of the June minutes, and arising from them we | + | |
- | were told Shoalhaven Shire Council had replied to our request to build on Coolana with a massive document setting out the " | + | |
- | Correspondence contained as well as the usual crop of journals, a request for reinstatement to full membership by Graham Hogarth, and advice that the Electricity Commission was offering $280 for an easement along the transmission line (Dapto to Canberra) crossing our property. It | + | |
- | was thought that a higher figure might be obtained in view of the necessary destruction to bushland and wild life that could follow. There was | + | |
- | advice too from Ed Stanton on the adjoining Quakers property of some damage resulting from the June dounpour | + | |
- | The Treasurer told us June had been a healthy month financially, | + | |
- | with a good excess of income over outlay, and finishing with ' | + | |
- | It remained | + | |
- | be advised that the Water Board' | + | |
- | was then time to chatter awhile before we dispersed. | + | |
- | **************** | + | |
- | Pagb 1 THE - SYDNEY BUSH,WALKER August, 1975. | + | |
- | , | + | |
- | September | + | |
- | 5, 6, 7 - It seems quite Obvious | + | |
- | 59 6, 7 - Just as spectacular but in more familiar territory is Bob Younger' | + | |
- | Sunday 7 - | + | |
- | 12,13,14 | + | |
- | See the upper reaches of Cowan Creek in the early spring with Mary Braithwaite. Easy tracks all the way with lots of wild flowers, a very pleasant trip. | + | |
- | Malcollm | + | |
- | Sunday 14 Real native rose territory. This is David Ingram' | + | |
- | Sunday 14 Neville Page is leading his valiant followers down from Hartley | + | |
- | Vale station into the spectacular upper reaches of the Grose | + | |
- | valley. A little scrubby and slow at first but well worth the | + | |
- | effort. | + | |
- | 19520921 | + | |
- | Sunday 21 Today it's the Blue Labyrinth with Jim Brown, into the green wonderland of Glenbrook Creek, A really great days outing. | + | |
- | Sunday 21 Walk the unspoilt coast of Royal National Park with Roy | + | |
- | Page /6 THE SYDNEY BUSHWALIM August, 1975, | + | |
- | .SepteMber. | + | |
- | Braithwaite. Good tracks with plenty of ocean and spectacular coastal scenery. | + | |
- | Sunday 28 Plenty of wild flowers on Sheila Binns' Uloola Track National Park walk. Congenial company and easy tracks go together to make the day pass very pleasantly. | + | |
- | Sunday 28 If you he seen the coastal displays of flowers come with John Holly who has been saving this walk up all year just to show you the display around Bargo. | + | |
- | FEDERATION NOTES. | + | |
- | . by Jim Vatiliotis. | + | |
- | Annual Goneral Meeting | + | |
- | There were no nominations or volunteers for President, Senior | + | |
"That this meeting be adjourned to 16th September subject to the ensuing qualifications: | "That this meeting be adjourned to 16th September subject to the ensuing qualifications: | ||
+ | |||
(a) All affiliated clubs be notified by letter. | (a) All affiliated clubs be notified by letter. | ||
+ | |||
(b) At this adjournment of the meeting there will be discussion in committee of ways of overcoming the present impasse as far as election of office bearers. | (b) At this adjournment of the meeting there will be discussion in committee of ways of overcoming the present impasse as far as election of office bearers. | ||
- | (c) Presidents and secretaries of clubs be invited to attend in addition to the delegates that would normally attend so that problems can be discussed with authority. | + | |
+ | c) Presidents and secretaries of clubs be invited to attend in addition to the delegates that would normally attend so that problems can be discussed with authority. | ||
(d) No August meeting is held. | (d) No August meeting is held. | ||
- | (e) All positions not filled before the p4journment | + | |
+ | (e) All positions not filled before the adjournment | ||
(f) Federation activities to continue. | (f) Federation activities to continue. | ||
- | (g) Affiliation fees to be determined at meeting on 16th September." | + | |
- | AUGUST 1975 THE SYDNEY ):; | + | (g) Affiliation fees to be determined at meeting on 16th September." |
- | THE | + | |
- | (;) | + | ====THE SBW OVERSEAS TOUR==== |
- | COIMITTEE | + | |
- | a | + | COMMITTEE |
- | NN | + | |
- | TjiJ | + | CONE AND SEE THE BEAUTIFUL TAJ MAHAL, THE IMPRESSIVE |
- | NNNN | + | |
- | NH NN | + | DATES (TENTATIVE) |
- | NN NN NN | + | |
- | DRDRDROD RD RD | + | SAT 13 DEC 75 SYDNEY |
- | RD DR | + | |
- | DD. DO | + | SUN 14 DEC 75 BANGKOK |
- | RD OD | + | |
- | OD DD DflDnDODD | + | MON 5 JAN 76 MADRAS |
- | AA | + | |
- | AA AA | + | FRI 9 JAN 76 COLOMBO |
- | AA 'n | + | |
- | AA AA AAAAAAAAAA | + | SAT 16 JAN 76 SINGAPORE - SYDNEY |
- | AA AA | + | |
- | AA AA | + | CONTACT - EITHER MARCIA SHAPPERT |
- | III Iii II II II II I | + | |
- | ALSO VISITING | + | COSTS - THE GROUP THAT WENT TWO YEARS AGO SPENT ABOUT $100 EACH FOR THEIR FIVE WEEKS IN INDIA AND SRI LANKA. THIS INCLUDED |
- | /Jul JJL3 1J rooevl ry? | + | |
- | (..16, | + | |
- | (F0MCRLY | + | ====NOTICE OF HALF-YEARLY |
- | (THAILAND) | + | ===THE SYDNEY BUSH WALKERS |
- | CONE AND SEE Tj.T 7,37AUTIFUL TALI 11A71AL.,THE INPR ESSIVE | + | |
- | 4-1 :es) | + | NOTICE is hereby given that the Half-Yearly General Meeting of the Sydney Bush Walkers will be held at the Wireless Institute of Australia, 14 Atchison Street, St. Leonards, |
- | SAT 13 i;EC 75 SYDNEY | + | |
- | SUN DEC .75 zJANGHO | + | __AGENDA__ |
- | LION 5 ,.;-11,J NARRA COLON30 | + | |
- | FF" | + | 1. Apologies. |
- | SI-1T 1q, J kr\T 76 C: INCAPORE | + | |
- | SYDNEY SUN 1 1 JAN 76 | + | |
- | P7TUF:N TO | + | |
- | (TENTATIVE) | + | |
- | EITHER flATCli% STJAPPEI: | + | |
- | PETE SCAND!7ETT (6683111 | + | |
- | ND CALL TILJ- EE RETUNED) AT THE A707E NUM:E.:?S, OP AT THE CLUE ALMOST ANY NEETING. | + | |
- | T.4ENT | + | |
- | LANIg4.. INCLTMED | + | |
- | PPESENT | + | |
- | FLYING | + | |
- | YOUR ITINERARY | + | |
- | Page 18 THE SYDNEY BUSHWALUR August, 1975. | + | |
- | NOTICE OF HAIFYEARLY | + | |
- | THE SYDNEY BUSH WALKERS. | + | |
- | NOTICE is hereby given that the Half-:Yearly General Meeting of the Sydney Bush Walkers will be hela at the Wireless Institute of Australia, 14 Atchison Street, St. Leonards9 | + | |
- | AGEND A. | + | |
- | Apologies. | + | |
2. Welcome to new members. | 2. Welcome to new members. | ||
+ | |||
3. Minutes of the August General Meeting held on Wednesday 13th August, 1975. | 3. Minutes of the August General Meeting held on Wednesday 13th August, 1975. | ||
- | Correspondence. | + | |
- | Reports (a) ilireasurer's Report | + | 4. Correspondence. |
+ | |||
+ | 5. Reports | ||
+ | |||
+ | (a) Treasurer's Report | ||
(b) Walks Report | (b) Walks Report | ||
- | (0) Social Report or Announcements (d) Federation Report | + | |
+ | c) Social Report or Announcements | ||
+ | |||
+ | (d) Federation Report | ||
6. Selection of site for the 1976 Annual Reunion. | 6. Selection of site for the 1976 Annual Reunion. | ||
- | 7. Election of Convenor and Organizing Committee for the. 1976 Annual Reunion (volunteers sought). | + | |
- | 8. Consideration of the future role of the Federation of | + | 7. Election of Convenor and Organizing Committee for the 1976 Annual Reunion (volunteers sought). |
- | Bushwalking Clubs and their present constitutional crisis. | + | |
+ | 8. Consideration of the future role of the Federation of Bushwalking Clubs and their present constitutional crisis. | ||
9. General Business and Announcements. | 9. General Business and Announcements. | ||
- | SUBSCRIPTIONS Members are reminded that their annual subscriptions | + | |
- | have been due and payable for the last six months, and the Committee must soon face the task of crossing off those members who remain unfinancial. | + | SUBSCRIPTIONS |
- | ILELEN | + | |
+ | HELEN GRAY. | ||
Hon. Secretary. | Hon. Secretary. | ||
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